Interesting analysis. I just finished a year of using Node for implementing an HTTP API and a chat server, and found it to be actually pretty pleasant. I'm not chasing the latest and greatest things, there's no ES6, no ORM, and I'm on an older version of Node. But it works and has actually been quite stable! The things I've missed are static type checking at compile time, and execution speed (which is less of an issue when you're talking with databases all the time). I'd be happy to write in more detail if anyone has any questions, but I found I had the opposite experience of this author. The situation makes all the difference though.